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Content-Based Instruction - Coggle Diagram
Content-Based Instruction
Communication
Meaningful and porpuseful interaction
Negotiation of meaning
Learning through feedback and different ways of saying things
CBI
It believes the use of the content in classroom activities and different dimensions of communicative competence is the best way to create a good process of learning
Definition
"The teaching of content or information in the language being learned with little or no direct or explicit effort to teaching the language itself separately from the content being taught."
Krahnke
Content
It' s the information or subject mattethat we learn or communicthrough language
Content is selected first, and other decisions about grammar, functions, etc., are selected later
Assumptions about language learning
Acquiring meaningful information help people to learn a language
Content provides a logical framework to develop the language skills.
CBI can be used as
the framework for a unit of work
CBI can be used with any type of curriculum
E.g
.: In a business communication course, the teacher identifies key topics in the area of sales and marketing to provide the framework.
the guiding principle for an entire course
EFL context
A mainstream and multiskilled course book are the base of this course
European universities
The sequence of modules spread over the academic year. The topics provide a framework for language learning.
a course that prepares students for mainstreaming
Intensive courses for immigrant children based on CBI.
This approach is discribed by Wu
As the rationale for the use of English as a medium for teaching some school subjects
Teach some schools subjects enterily in English. It's also know as
immersion education
E.g.
: Malaysia uses English as the medium of instruction.
As the framework for commercial EFL/ESL materials
The series
Cambridge English for Schools
and My own conversation course
Springboard
Issues in implementing a CBI approach
The extent to which focusing on content
The teacher need to have the necessary subject-matter expertise to teach specific subjects
Gabriela Chuquitarco